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Everyone knows that knowledge of the adventure is Ultraviolet Clearance, and well above the level of any player. Just activate his clone as a warning.

Harkon Lukas wants to challenge you to a fiddle contest. Probably at a crossroads.

I am well aware - but does that make it right? I understand there's a controversy about people wanting to further develop Machu Picchu in a way that might damage the site - but why don't people have the right to run their country the way they want? But that's enough of a threadjack.

Not to mention there is an issue with one country telling another country how to handle things within their own borders. I'm sure the U.S. would have strong words if Egypt demanded we preserve parts of our country for "the good of mankind". Not that I have a solution to this, of course. It's...

So it's a PG version of "Eyes Wide Shut"?

If I ever play another Planescape game, I'm going to play an Athar as a radical leftist. He knows the gods exist, he just thinks we should seize the means of worship and redistribute the prayers to the people. That’s dangerously close to the No Politics rule, and isn’t funny to boot. Be better.

We settled on rolling once per round - the cleric in question sets a die on the card after she rolled it, so that everyone remembers what the bonus is this time.

It's powerful in my IWD game, that's for sure. It's also kind of tedious to run - the player having to constantly update people on how many bonus HP they have now, and the fact that it triggers at the end of each player's turn keeps confusing people. We also had to work out that it doesn't...

Because "orcsploitation" is a great word.

Well, yes, it's illegal - but does that necessarily mean it's not a good thing? Or are we all rules lawyers now?

What if Hiregaard was a devoted historian, and his curse is that every time he comes out of one of his episodes, the entire history of the kingdom has changed?

Keep in mind that Middle Ages Norse people are not the same as the people who wrote the ancient legends and sagas. International travel didn't always exist.

The problem, I suspect, is that this isn't an adaptation or an update - it's a company altering it's Intellectual Property to sell better in the modern day. It's a soft reboot. It might just be an inescapable result of corporate control of art.

If that's the way you want to go, I'd suggest limiting how often he can use the ability rather than altering it. Once per short rest would be the obvious choice, but something less predictable might be an option.

The design intent of the module is to keep the party from beating him unless they fight him in the one place he won't retreat, as determined by the Tarokka reading. So in practice, the "passwall" ability is the one thing that keeps the party from curb-stomping him.

I wonder if this is more because these pre-millenial writers didn't write female characters well, or because they were too-closely imitating gothic period writers who didn't write female characters well?

How are the rule mechanics for the cooking contests? Are they sufficiently crunchy or more abstract?

The module doesn't make this clear, but the intent is to have the party stumble arount Ten-Towns looking for the bad guy, but not find him until they've done another quest or two. My party was 3rd when they caught him and the fight was short.

We discussed this after CoS - one of my PCs intended to stay and rule Barovia after Strahd's demise. I told him that, inevitably, he or his heirs would be corrupted by the darkness and become a wicked tyrant. And a couple of generations from now, a brave young hero would engage in a quest to...

Well, in theory, one could use the new material by combining it with the Arthaus maps. Depending on how much they changed the domains, of course.